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postsecondary education occurring on the same continuum, with high school learning
intended specifically to prepare students for the next level of study. (Fanetti, et al., 2010,
p. 77)
However, outcome does not always follow expectations and...

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While basic developmental writing courses were effective, ones that focused only on
grammar weren’t, and since most college placement tests are generally multiple choice, a
student’s language or grammar skills are being tested rather than their...

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would put forth effort and eventually pursue a postsecondary education in that particular field.
Gemici and Rojewski (2010) used the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002 to determine if having students take part in a work-based program while...

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information about each sport at the school, but for elements such as, accurate rosters, I needed to wait until each team held tryouts. For this reason, I began putting in many of the elements form the previous seasons, and soon found that the...

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Chapter 5
Discussion
Introduction
Graduation has been a long-standing problem for alternative education students. The drop-out rate for alternative students, especially those at Alternative High School, was uncommonly high, 86%. The traditional...

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Rationale
In an effort to best improve Snow College’s social media marketing efforts
compounded with the conflicting data on the use of social media in higher education led
to a survey of high school students and parents. The survey was...

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Method
As a part of my capstone work, I incorporated a research piece to the project. The
goal of the research was to determine the type/s of social media communication platforms
that high school seniors and their parents, prefer to use to...

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Academy states that we strive “to help students rediscover the value and rewards of education and guide them in becoming literate, socially-responsible, lifelong learners” (USOE, 2006, p. 3).
SEA is an alternative high school in Cedar City, Utah,...

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Participants
Approximately two groups or a maximum total of 50 bilingual English/Spanish students
will be selected to participate in this study for the purpose of analyzing their English writing
abilities before and after the implementation of...

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and differences among the academic groups. Third, by explaining any missing or conflicting
data. Fourth, by presenting both the quantitative and qualitative data and findings collected for
this research while following the order of the three...